2015 Digital Health Week: Past Events

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Many interactive events took place during Digital Health Week, November 16-22, 2015. View videos and transcripts from our webinars, public forums and tweet chats. Using Digital Health towards Better Health This webinar will highlight work that Canada...

Alexa's Story: Patient Empowerment

Alexa's Story: Working in Partnership with Your Health Provider

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Alexa uses digital health to manage her health in partnership with her health care team. Digital health enables her to not only see her health information, but to enter her own data. Find out more about her story.

Better Health Together Workshop: The Citizens’ Vision for Better Health through Digital Solutions

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05 June 2017

This document is an output from the Better Health Together Workshop, held in March 2017, which brought together 34 citizen participants from across Canada. By partaking in a series of collaborative activities and expert presentations, the participants...

Blog Post: Canadians are Embracing Digital Health

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Canadians are no strangers to the virtual world, with a Canadian user visiting an average of 3,731 pages every month. It's no surprise, then that Canadians also head online for health information, and, in fact, 72 per cent of family physicians refer...

2014 will be remembered as the year the patient movement really gained significant traction. Electronic medical record adoption also increased, with 77 per cent of Canadian primary care physicians using community based EMRs.

Digital health technologies have the potential to transform the patient experience and improve patient outcomes — but to do so, they need to be designed with the patient in mind. This is why engaging with consumers and patients is a vital part of what...

Blog Post: Talking to Your Patient About Digital Health

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As physicians, we can harness our knowledge of digital health technologies to give patients a framework for understanding how their health information is currently managed, and crucially, how patients can manage it themselves.

Blog Post: What Would You Do with More Time?

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Canadians could save millions of hours a year if they had more access to digital health tools, but only one in 10 Canadians currently has access to patient services online, such as e-booking, accessing test results or e-visits.

Breathe: A Canadian Asthma App

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To help asthma patients better manage their condition, the Ontario Lung Association has developed breathe – a mobile app that helps people with asthma track their symptoms, triggers and medication usage, and provides them with an Action Plan generated...

Cathy's Story: Co-ordinating Care

Cheryl-Anne's Story: Becoming an Informed Patient

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Listen to Cheryl-Anne's story as she explains the benefits of digital health tools when managing her cancer journey. Digital health helped empower her as a patient by helping her keep track of a complex disease and to stay in touch with her health care...

Diagnosis and Treatment

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Electronic health records (EHRs) can help your health care provider make a timelier and better informed diagnosis by having easy access to a comprehensive picture of your health history. Think Digital Health isn’t Making a Difference? Think Again....